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We can’t believe it’s been a whole week since Friday the 31st – time is flying by and now it’s almost time to get ready for Christmas again. However, not before we do a quick flashback to all your amazing Halloween looks. If you don’t follow us on Instagram oR Twitter you might have missed all the amazing looks our wonderful customers came up with over the spooky weekend.

When this email from the lovely Katie Wrigley dropped into my inbox I was over-the-moon! Team Eldora are always banging on about how brilliant our lashes are so to have someone put them to the test (a very extreme test!) and come back with a glowing report was amazing. Read below for a very lovely, very beautiful and very lash-filled tale…

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As a freelance make up artist I find the most desired appointments for occasional party make up are between three and six, but there are only so many appointments available between those hours, I’m extremely lucky to have a regular flow of clients!I found that when prime appointments were not available that some clients (particularly new clients) were reluctant to have their make up applied at two when they did not intend to go out until maybe eight, with reasons including:

* It will be on too long* It will sweat off

* Eyelashes won’t lastEven when reassured, some clients just would not risk it for their big night out. What could I do?I tried applying my own make up each day at 9 and when I was still getting compliments by the end if the day I found it a tangible way to reassure clients.I genuinely believe in the products I use, speak about and promote the looks I create using these products passionately, I needed to get this noticed and others to believe too.

So I had an idea, maybe a crazy idea, but I hoped it would make an impact! What if I test my make up to the extreme?

When I turned 30 I made a promise with myself that I’d run a marathon – crazy – for someone who actually did zero exercise this was a big deal – I had to train! My body changed. My life revolved around running which I hated! Suddenly I thought, what if I run the marathon wearing make up? (Including eyelashes obviously!) so I could genuinely put my theory to the test.

So on the morning of the marathon at six AM I started to apply my make up, I chose Eldora false eyelashes H119. By seven AM I was in the car driving to the race with a full face of make up on.

By nine AM I was standing on the starting line, my nerves gone, and the sky heavy with rain clouds.

Five hours, six minutes and seven seconds later, I’d done it, I’d ran a marathon.Almost eight hours after I’d first applied my make up, this photo was taken

* 26.2 miles later* In the rain* In the blazing sunshine* In the howling wind* There were tears

As Autumn Winter approaches we’re getting itchy fit concerning our beauty looks! A new season always calls for a new makeup look and today we’re reconsidering all things blusher. Thanks to some cult products (MAC blushes anyone?) and some new kids on the block (Charlotte Tilbury Beach Sticks are amazing!) we’re feeling well equipped to tackle our cheekbones. Plus, we’ve got all this for inspiration…

Don’t forget, the best way to make the boys blush? A pair of our lashes! Why not try our multi-layered range for full-on beauty?

While our main addiction is of course lashes, we are rather partial to a calorific dessert. We’ve created a Saturday Sweets board on Pinterest which has given us the perfect excuse to spend hours drooling over amazing sweet recipes! For all you food porn addicts we highly reccomend having a look.

There’s so many wonderful looks on our Instagram that it’s hard to choose just a few to share! Thanks to all you talented Makeup Artists and Bbloggers for choosing to use our lashes. We’ve chosen just three beautiful looks but head to our Instagram to see more.

I’m sure you’re bored of how much we harp on about working with talented MUAs and beauty pros, but we really do love it! There is simply nothing better than seeing our lashes being put to good use and today we have a post full of gorgeouss images thanks to the wonderful MUA Anne Bowcock.

Anne and the team are working on a series of Deadly Sins shoots and of course they’re using Eldora lashes. First up was Lust – take a look at the increidble results below:

We asked Anne to tell us a little more about the shoot, the concept behind it and the technique involved:

“For the lashes I used Eldora H105 lashes and customised them using purple face paint which I painted all over the lashes to give depth of colour from underneath the decoration. To stick on the embleshiments I used Spirit Gum which I brushed all over the lashes and then started to layer up the decoration.

I used sliced glitter (used for nail decoration) then blue and silver glitter sparkles and then Silver Iris Fusible Fibre from the hobby shop, I cut this into small strands and placed on top of all the silver sparkle decoration, when this catches in the light it gives a hint of purple to it so I felt it all matched and complimented the theme and makeup.”

We’re always on the hunt for nail art inspiration and Pinterest is the perfect place! Searching for new looks to try this autumn we spied these gorgeous ideas – now all we need is a free night to sit down and try them!

If you’re a nail art whizz kid then please let us know, we’d be happy to promote your favourite looks!